Bringing art from the canvas to the community through art projects around the metro.
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Art & Art History offers an educational and collaborative experience with established and emerging artists within the School of the Arts.

Students can enhance their classroom study with internship opportunities at Omaha museums, arts organizations, advertising/design firms, and more.

The Weber Fine Arts Building (WFAB) houses studio spaces for painting, drawing, printmaking, papermaking, book arts, electronic imaging, art education and graphic arts. A separate building houses sculpture and ceramics studios. WFAB is also home to the UNO Art Gallery, a vital cultural and educational forum for the study, contemplation and critical analysis of works of art.

Spring 2015 Announcement

Previously, incoming Studio Art majors could not declare a concentration until Studio Core I and Core I Portfolio Review were completed. This policy is no longer in place as of Spring 2015. Please contact your adviser to declare a concentration.

Accreditation

Art & Art History is accredited through the 2021-22 academic year by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Being granted accreditation is an achievement that signifies our program has sound educational objectives and meets the standards established by NASAD, which address operational and curricular issues fundamental to educational quality.

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Art in Public Places

On September 24, students in David Helm’s ART 4010 Art in Public Places class posted artistic road signs across the UNO campus to gain an understanding of how conceptual art functions in public spaces, what type of visual language is appropriate for these spaces, what types of permissions are needed to display in public venues, and what types of controversy may arise in response.

Road signs and clip art are both accessible methods of communication for the general public, said David Helm, professor of sculpture in UNO’s Department of Art & Art History. “I wanted to design an assignment where the students had to think about what public language is and how it works in a specific space,” Helm said. “I came up with this idea for them to work with visual ‘ingredients’ that are familiar to people. That way they will immediately recognize what it is, but the artistic elements then leave it open to interpretation.”

Watch as each student gives a brief interview about his/her sign and its meaning, creation, and placement on campus.